After Whitney Houston’s dying in 2012, her mom Cissy Houston puzzled if there was something she may’ve executed totally different to save lots of her life.
Talking to PEOPLE in 2013 about her revealing memoir, Remembering Whitney, Cissy mirrored on the star’s tragic dying.
“I believe I used to be an excellent mom, and I nonetheless do surprise if I may have saved her one way or the other. I believe why not. Why would not I ponder that? I nonetheless need her to be right here,” Cissy, who died on Oct. 7 at age 91, mentioned on the time.
“Sure, I want I may have saved her. I am sorry she needed to die alone and in that type of situation or predicament. It actually made me very unhappy and it harm me,” she added.
Cissy concluded, “Who is aware of what the course offers, the place you’re going in life. Life is actually loopy and humorous. You are taking one path, typically that is good. One other one, typically that is unhealthy. You do not know. You do not know till it is too late. As a result of if I may have saved my daughter in any means, I might have. Any means that I may have helped her.”
In her memoir, Cissy candidly wrote about Whitney’s dependancy and the downward spiral that led to her dying by drowning in a resort bathtub with traces of cocaine nonetheless in her system.
On the time, Cissy mentioned it was “very tough” to see her daughter battle.
“No person is born to a lady who says ‘I need my daughter to be a drug addict,'” she mentioned. “I did the whole lot as I may that I believed was the suitable factor to do. Some children pay attention and a few folks do not. Most of them do not, and so they run up into one thing that they cannot deal with, and more often than not they do not discuss to their dad and mom about it.”
Cissy died at her dwelling in New Jersey whereas underneath hospice take care of Alzheimer’s illness, her daughter-in-law Pat Houston confirmed.
“Our hearts are stuffed with ache and unhappiness. We loss the matriarch of our household,” Pat mentioned in an announcement. “Mom Cissy has been a robust and towering determine in our lives. A girl of deep religion and conviction, who cared vastly about household, ministry, and neighborhood. Her greater than seven-decade profession in music and leisure will stay on the forefront of our hearts.”
She continued, “Her contributions to well-liked music and tradition are unparalleled . We’re blessed and grateful that God allowed her to spend so a few years with us and we’re grateful for all the numerous useful life classes that she taught us. Could she relaxation in peace, alongside her daughter, Whitney and granddaughter Bobbi Kristina and different cherished relations.”
Cissy — who received two Grammy awards in her singing profession — was additionally an aunt of singers Dionne Warwick and Dee Dee Warwick.